Based on your description, the easiest would be to scroll vertically, maybe something like barrel rolls, like the old style dispensing machine in gas stations: You can easily smooth scroll vertically at full speed, without much memory overhead, something that is hardly doable horizontally. That woul...

So, just so everybody knows what we are talking about: [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gk-Vmi13-0[/media] The game is definitely in HIRES has the green and white ground shows, so the few tricks I can see: FrelonZoomed.png - The CYAN bridge is bordered by two WHITE columns, which are most pro...

Does it has to be HIRES? If you can afford to have a repeating pattern, you can do some fancy things, like the wobble effect in Barbitoric which is 100% TEXT mode. http://defence-force.org/pages/demos/barbitoric/pics/barbitoric_6.gif Also using TEXT mode you can use double size characters, which hal...

And yeah, my copy of the SEDORIC manual is definitely getting dog-eared at the moment .. all the commands I should know, feel I should be an expert on, but in actuality I have no clue about. Do you have an actual english version of the manual? On the library I only have the French version (and not ...

I'm trying my best to make/keep the whole DF thing in the way I would like many places to be, with a reasonably good signal/noise ratio, no name calling and community fight, free sharing of information, etc... I admit that sometimes I lose my cool on some topic, but I'm trying

Thanks to the manual registration, the forum has avoided a massive wave of spam, since Saturday morning about 150 accounts have been created but they stayed inactive. What I did is that I changed the "captcha" question on the registration page, and I mass deleted all the inactive users. What that me...

Sorry, I was gone for the week-end (family celebration thingy), I'll take a look later. I did try to patch the .h already a few days ago, but it did not work, I guess I fumbled when I did it. For reference my version looked like that: Line 265: 0x49,0x4E,0x53,0x45,0x52,0x54,0x20,0x4D,0x73,0x74,0x20,...

HIRES scrolling is generally a very context specific operation, and ultimately it depends on a number of factors: - How much memory are your willing to use - Do you need to scroll the entire HIRES screen - Does the scroll area contains attributes or not - Do you use some backbuffer (or work directly...

I've a new bug report :) ISS linked a patched Sedoric floppy on the http://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&p=17473#p17473 thread, I wanted to extract the patch files using ORIC DSK Manager, but when I tried to load it, I got an error dialog: "Error in Archive Operation See the application...